In Yi Shu's novel "The First Half of My Life", it is written that when the sun sets at dusk, it will
Deeply. Every time I woke up at dusk, the room was dark, and there was always a sense of loneliness rushing from the sky, a sadness for no reason, as if in this empty world, there was only one I was a little bit eroded by the twilight.
The oil painting "Scream" conveys the auditory feeling with visual symbols
Norwegian painter Edward Munch's famous work "Scream", I believe everyone is more familiar. The blood-red sky and the dark river under dusk are twisted together in extremely vicious and eerie lines, the sky shakes, the heavens and the earth change color, and the endless sense of oppression envelops the picture. The main character seems to be swallowed up by this colossal horror, the pain covers his ears and still can't bear it, and a "wail" that resounds through the sky breaks through the physical and mental fears, and the natural catharsis and horror.
"Scream" presents an extreme loneliness and bitterness of human beings, the fragility of the absoluteness of life under the vast chaos. Munch's creation was inspired by a walk with two friends at dusk. Sick and weak, Munch leaned on the fence tiredly and was left behind. At this moment the sunset stained the sky blood red, and a wave of sorrow and indescribable terror surged into his heart, and he "heard a great cry that resounded through nature, endlessly."
In Munch's other painting, Despair, we also see the spiritual atmosphere of the characters' dejection under the oppressive colors of dusk.
Darkness under the Setting Sun: "Despair"
Art is the synaesthesia of reality, the dusk between the dark and the bright, giving people an intuitive transmission of more desolation and slaughter.
The reason why we feel depressed at dusk, in addition to the psychological category, is a large part of the force majeure given by nature, as well as the unconscious dependence of generations of people throughout the ages on the guidance and hints of the cultural experience of their ancestors.
Rene Liu has a relatively niche song called "Evening", and there is a lyric that reads "Afraid of the evening, silently reading the way home in the car... Weak light, nasty self, I want to disappear with it", the reason behind the song is because she once suffered from "evening phobia". Every dusk, she was surrounded by depressed and depressed emotions for no reason, and at one point she was so severe that she was in pain, and in her uneasiness about the darkness, she felt that "her whole body seemed to be drained of nutrients."
With the modern people's emphasis on mental health, a variety of "symptoms" are emerging in an endless stream, but the concept of "twilight phobia" is really little known. Enter a query in The Encyclopedia, the explanation that is not specific given is:
When a new psychological concept is not universal, we do not attach much importance to the special emotions of our existence, and even hide them for fear of being classified as "alien". For example, the unexplained sadness of their twilight may be ridiculed as a kind of "temperament". When we express this confusion, we are surprised to find that there are other people who feel this way.
To be together means to be understood.
More similar to "twilight phobia" is "dusk anxiety disorder". Some families with babies will find that every dusk, the baby will have emotional ups and downs, crying, and it is difficult to appease; American scholars have proposed a concept called "sunset syndrome", which mostly appears in the elderly with Alzheimer's disease, who perform stably during the day, but at sunset, there will be a series of emotional disorders and consciousness disorders.
Probably at any stage of life, it is more or less difficult to resist this natural depressing force before sunset. In reality, most of us are far from the level of morbid fear of dusk, but it is difficult to withstand the moment of sadness before sunset, and fall into negative emotions for no reason.
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In a temporal sense
The morning represents the beginning of the day, bright and full of unknown hopes, and at the same time filled with busy labor, there is no time to think. When dusk comes, even the tired birds have returned home, the day is coming to an end, when the brain calms down, it will breed emotions, and it will feel very afraid in the face of a mediocre day and the time that has passed.
This fear and waste of time is especially strong after a day of doing nothing. For example, on a rest day, you delay various trips or fitness plans, and you are bored to brush up on a daytime video soap opera; or you just want to take a nap at noon, and you end up sleeping groggily until the sun sets...
The sun suddenly cooled down, the hue suddenly dimmed, and the day that I could have lived more meaningfully was wasted, and I had to face the pressure and busyness of tomorrow. In fact, the real arrival of the night is actually relieved, and the most painful thing is the process of waiting for the night to come. All kinds of chagrin, self-blame, discouragement, frustration, sadness rush into the heart, and when alone, you will also be surrounded by loneliness with self-pity and self-pity.
From an evolutionary perspective
In the course of the first three million years of human life, caves were the main places of life. In addition to sheltering from the wind and rain, it is more important to avoid the night attack of wild beasts.
Hunting during the day, staying until dusk, you have to seize the time to hide in the cave, at night nocturnal beasts are infested, and the outside is full of dangers. Therefore, dusk heralds a sense of urgency at stake, the powerful and merciless pressure of nature.
Therefore, modern people's fear and sense of escape from dusk is an instinct that human beings have evolved from the defense mechanism and carved into the genes.
When I was young and did not know what it was, I was most afraid that my parents did not leave work, and I stayed alone in the home where the lights were not turned on at dusk, the room was dim and dark, the sound of television came from the neighbor's house, and my heart seemed to be filled with heavy things; when I was in elementary school, I had to walk through an empty field, and when I passed through school in the evening, there were a few farmers working in the silent afterglow, unspeakably desolate and sentimental;
Later, I read Li Qingzhao's "Sycamore is more combined with drizzle, to dusk, bit by bit." This time, what a sad word. Dengshi had a relationship in his heart, and lamented that the ancients had such a literary heart.
For thousands of years, in our vast sea of poetry and song, dusk, as a carrier of rendering emotions, has been endowed with rich cultural imagery. It can be "sunset", "oblique sun", "evening light", "sunset", "sunset"... Most of them are sad and sentimental objects, allegorical to the scene, and pinned on the ancients' metaphors for society, life, and circumstances.
The Sunset Returns, The Slanting Sun Brigade
Ma Zhiyuan's "Tianjing Sha Qiusi", a classic poem in the primary school text, uses just twenty-eight words to construct a desolate sunset map.
Dead vines and old trees are dimwitted, small bridges and flowing water people's homes, and the ancient road west wind is thin horses. As the sun sets, the broken intestines are at the end of the world.
The sunset reflects the remnants of the scene, "dry, old, dim, ancient, thin" Xiao Suo, reflecting the sadness in the heart of a tired traveler who drifts away from home. At that time, the poet was depressed and embarrassed, and his obscure life made him feel even more depressed, and the scenery and love language intersected, achieving the long emotional intention of the poem.
Coincidentally, "Xiao Xiao Ancient Road west wind and rain, tragic dusk on horseback", "outside the sun, jackdaws, flowing water around the isolated village", "mountains reflect the sun and the sky is even water, the grass is merciless, more outside the sun", "the reflection of the sunset reflects the forest, the riverside is full of hibiscus old", "where the sunset sail is moored, the end of the world looks at the broken human intestines"... Poets express their sorrows at dusk, relieve themselves of the difficulties of living in a foreign country, and lament that life is like sending and thinking of returning to their hometown.
Mourning the late mourning and lamenting the homeland
Wild grass flowers by the Suzaku Bridge, the sunset at the mouth of Wuyi Lane. In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people. “
Liu Yuxi's "Wuyi Lane" is popular among the population, using the sunset residue to illuminate the snub and desolation of Wuyi Lane, setting off the prosperity and prosperity of the former royal power and wealth, touching the present and hanging the ancients, lamenting the rise and fall of the historical dynasty under the vicissitudes of the sea and the mulberry field. After reading it, I only feel lonely and infinitely desolate.
Zhou Zizhi, a tragic poet of the Southern Song Dynasty and a contemporary of Xin Shuyi, faced with the chaotic world of the division of mountains and rivers, wrote "Infinite rivers and mountains, infinite sorrow, slanting sun on both sides of the strait, and people on flat boats." "The sun sinks in the west, reminiscent of the weakness of life, just like the fate of the homeland, and the poet expresses his hidden worries about reality, which is sad.
The philosophy of the sun in ancient poetry
Jin Sheng sighed in the "Du Shi Xie" and concluded: "Every time Tang poetry uses the word 'sorrow', it must be paired with the word 'twilight'. Autumn is the twilight of the twilight of the sun, and it is used as a sad word. ”
Connecting the sunset with sorrow is the cultural consciousness of the literati in ancient times, through the sense of natural phenomena, the infinite feelings are condensed into timeless words, passing on across time and space, bringing philosophical enlightenment and literary beauty to those who read it.
The emotional resonance of the twilight is the consciousness of the tragedy of life bred by the common culture, carrying our thinking and pursuit of the grander concept of life and the universe, and this realization is itself part of the feeling of life.
Qian Zhongshu once said: "Cover the death and leave, the wounds are far away, between the dusk, the touches are coming, the so-called most difficult pastime." ”
Understanding this layer, our fear of dusk can be dissolved to a certain extent, this emotion is not special, just accept.
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